OMWC threatened to start driving his Free Candy van around my neighborhood if I didn’t make some actual links. And telling the neighbors why he was there. Since we just had a block (cul-de-sac?) party last weekend where I met and socialized with all of my neighbors, I guess I have something to lose. So let’s get to linking! Whoops, first some SPORTZBALL news — the Chicago Freakin Cubs have postponed their home opener. I once attended a home-opener at Wrigley Field and it is the coldest I ever remember being. Either today’s players really are soft or the AGW is all outside the North-Western quartisphere this spring. Go down to a 144 game season sez I. Take 12 off the front and six off the back.
Only in the UN would disarmament be synonymous with “using against your own people”. Syria to take over chair of the UN chemical weapons disarmament council.
I’m not sure if a former child actress (sorry OMWC) charging topless at Bill Cosby is going to help the plaintiffs. Or maybe the punishment is that she willingly took her top off and he’s too blind to enjoy it?
It ain’t bad enough them La-TEEN-Ohs gotta come here and take our jerbs, but now they’re buyin’ all our gasoline (down there) and costin’ us more at the pump!
Dark Matter experiment that has detected nothing for two decades, now finally sensitive enough to do so — if it exists. The only thing I’ve ever seen Dark Matter do is turn money into the null case repeatedly.
How about some throwback?
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I never get topless women screaming for my attention. I am so disappointed.
Really? Happens to me all the time!
They’re screaming “get out of this dressing room!”
/Benny Hill
I think you’re better off not having that particular topless woman screaming at you.
Sucks to be you.
Yes it does.
“‘semen’ written across her body”
I think that’s “FEMEN”.
Are you really?
Take a good look at the pictures in that article. It might change your mind.
I always wondered what Pennywise looked like without makeup.
Dark Matter experiment that has detected nothing for two decades, now finally sensitive enough to do so — if it exists.
Dark matter matters, cracker.
Is the #MeToo movement responsible for the increased sensitivity?
Of course, it is based on female ways of knowing, not those patriarchial rules of science
This kind is interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMc-75oLgU8
Only in the UN would disarmament be synonymous with “using against your own people”. Syria to take over chair of the UN chemical weapons disarmament council.
Wow. The UN has had some pretty laughable council members before, but this takes the cake. It’s beyond parody of useless bureaucracy and empty diplomacy.
I don’t know about that – having Iran chair the Human Rights Council was comedy gold.
I definitely give that runner up, but “Human Rights” is a vague category subject to myriad interpretations while “chemical weapons disarmament” is straight cut-and-dry so I think that gives the Syria appointment the edge. It’s like the UN appointed Iran to the HRC as a joke and then when not everyone got it they had to up the ante by appointing Syria to chemical weapons disarmament so that even the slow kids could get it.
A fair point.
What about when they were going to appoint Mugabe to champion tourism. ‘Yes, Whitey, come here, we welcome you and we won’t take your stuff! We promise!’. Nice. The UN should be dismantled and the building used for something actually worthwhile.
Wasn’t Saudi Arabia a member of some UN Council on the rights of women?
It’s not a parody of useless: it is useless.. And evil.
I’m really disappointed that Trump hasn’t started in on the UN yet. But there’s still hope, given time.
You mean “summon grant money from the vasty deep”, right?
Doesn’t really matter if Dark Matter exists or not, as long as someone can get some grant money from the vasty deep. ‘Muh theory has some holes, I need something to plug that up with. I’ve got it, mysterious dark matter! Needz moar grant money’!. Yup, it’s exactly like that.
Dark Matter is the God Gap of physics.
I think that would be dark energy.
Dark matter has been pretty well observed via gravitational lensing effects. Heck, they’ve even mapped how the dark matter interacted differently from baryonic matter in a collision of two galaxies.
Dark energy is an even bigger placeholder. I don’t think they even have a good idea as to a plausible source.
Good thing it’s warm enough way down on the south side of Chicago for the White Sox to play.
It’s fucking snowing outside right now. Seriously, April 9, in Baltimore. WTF? It’s global cooling, I’m sure of it. The science is settled! Burn the cooling deniers!
My naive little colleague thinks that Syria got this month-long position so the rest of teh world can “keep an eye on them”.
Yes, that’s how the UN works.
My naive little colleague thinks that Syria got this month-long position
so the rest of teh world can “keep an eye on them”.to piss of the Americans and screw the Israelis. FTFYCIt’s uhhhh, an uhhhhh, aspirational role!
Yeah, that’s it. Aspirational!
If that were the case, they would have given them the Nobel Peace Prize.
Aspiration – the action of drawing fluid by suction from a vessel or cavity.
Does that include penis?
How big is it if you consider it a vessel?
Where do they get these idiotic notions?
I literally never – after years and decades of reading shit about the UN – ever heard that ‘strategy’ employed.
No kidding. I thought the UN was all about not keeping an eye on anyone except Israel and the US.
I literally never – after years and decades of reading shit about the UN – ever heard of any kind of ‘strategy’ being employed.
Lefties do not have a very firm grasp on reality. The world apparently makes no sense to them, so they have to make up feel good stuff that they convince themselves to believe in an attempt to bridge the gap.
This delusion is not exclusive to the left.
No, it’s not, but that was the topic at hand.
You’ve got to slap that colleague around a little, Kristen. It’s for their own good, sometimes it’s the only way.
I once attended a home-opener at Wrigley Field and it is the coldest I ever remember being.
Pfffffft.
Coldest I’ve ever been, static temperature : -53 C, Colville Lake, NWT
With wind chill, -62 C, Diavik Diamond Mine, Lac De Gras, NWT
Florida Man (men) ….. yeah right.
I’ll go with Mr. Lizard, Hot Rocks For all!
Sorry, your records are not recognized because they are in a made up numbering system.
Celsius and Fahrenheit meet at -40, and it’s pretty difficult to ascertain anything other than “It’s goddamn cold” at that point anyways.
Peeing will hurt..
Nothing like putting one buttcheek on one tire, and the other cheek on the next one, in order to drop a Cleveland Steamer out in those climes.
AND HE’S TALKING ABOUT A MOTORCYCLE.
WHILE IT’S MOVING.
Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Incontinence
Farmer: Drops down to minus 173.
Fry: Fahrenheit or Celsius?
Farmer: First one, then the other.
Coldest for me was -39 with wind chill.
I remember (in ’78; when the ice age was still coming) it getting down to -35 during the day in SW Minnesoda and wind-chill being somewhere between -70 and -100 that night.
The between # had to do with the wind-chill being kind of imprecise at that level of cold and wind.
-32F on February 02, 1996 (actual temperature without windchill) — Minneapolis
Yeah I remember hitting -25 without wind chill a couple of times and -50 with wind chill a few times in Boston.
Once you go past 20 below though it really doesn’t matter
-40, camping outside Ely in December
-77 getting off a C-141 outside of Fairbanks in January 1983. Runner up -53 exiting an aircraft under a parachute 5km north of Norway’s North Cape in January 1988.
My Father in Law takes an annual ice fishing trip with his sons to North Dakota. They pack an entire truck bed full of cases of beer and drag a shack out on to the ice and then sit there keeping a hole clear while drinking for two weeks. They keep trying to get me to join them, but I’m not really buying their selling points. They like to brag about how it usually drops below -50 and how they drink Old Milwaukee all day. Yeah… that sounds really fun. Four guys in a shed the size of a half-bath for two weeks without a shower, and enough crappy cheap beer to inebriate a Packer’s gameday crowd.
Not unless it is a Gold Ticket game! (Those are the one’s they sell to Milwaukee ticket holders, who don’t hold their alcohol as well as us northern folk)
For those who don’t know, folks living in northern Wisconsin don’t like to drink. They just drink. Always and everywhere.
So much so that they actually have a pub right beside the grocery store, so you can grab a drink before heading home with the groceries. And then there will be a pub on the way home (since the store is usually 15-30 minutes away) to stop and have a beer and a bump.
Travelling across Wisconsin you will find that along the rural routes there are little pubs spaced roughly 15 minutes apart all across the state. Many of these are truly tiny, with only 3 or 4 patrons much of the time. But it seems to be a state law that no traveler should ever have to suffer more than 15 minutes between stops at a watering hole.
And I’m not sure, but I suspect that much of Wisconsin regards Milwaukee as something less than fully Wisconsin.
My boss sent me a Daily Beast article on the demise of the hub-and-spoke air travel system.
The article had a lament about deregulation. Even though prices are way lower than they were in the 70’s and there is way more choice in airlines. Liberals always gotta butch, even when the outcome is a net good.
*bitch LOL
Centralized control uber alles!
The problem with flight is all those rich people taking up too much space in first class. The only solution is for government to get involved and turn the entire plane into a cattle car so that everyone is equal. Now instead of almost no room in coach, you’ll have exactly none, standing room only. But everyone will be equal!
The owner of the last trucking company I worked for used to bitch about deregulation all the time. Competition, what’s that?
evenespecially when the outcome is a net goodSee also: the obsession with rooting out some occulted evil at the heart of anything benign, and hammering out a 1500 word essay on why it’s “problematic.” It’s the diseased mentality of seriously troubled people.
Every time I take a commercial flight the seats are 0.5″ narrower than the last time. Therefore, market failure.
I would like to believe that too. Unfortunately, I think I am 0.5 inches wider.
Facebook reconsiders ‘unsafe for community’ tag on pro-Trump Diamond and Silk videos after Fox & Friends appearance
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2018/04/09/facebook-reconsiders-unsafe-for-community-tag-on-pro-trump-diamond-and-silk-videos-after-fox-friends-appearance.html
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Facebook is reconsidering classifying videos produced by Diamond and Silk, two of President Donald Trump’s most ardent supporters, as “unsafe to the community” after the dynamic duo went on Fox News’ morning show asking why the embattled social media giant had labeled them as such.
In a statement to Fox News, a Facebook spokesperson said: “We are aware of this issue. We are reaching out to the creators of Diamond & Silk to try and resolve this matter.”
After being deemed “unsafe to the community” by Facebook’s public policy team, Lynnette “Diamond” Hardaway and Rochelle “Silk” Richardson went on Fox & Friends and said they were provided with no reason why their videos were labeled as unsafe.
“They gave us no rationale,” the sisters said on Sunday. “The only thing they told us is that we are unsafe for the community. We are two women of color, how are we unsafe? We don’t sell drugs, we don’t belong to no gangs. It’s offensive, it’s appalling, it taints our brand. Why are you censoring two black women? Why are you not allowing our viewers to view our content?”
The social media stars added that the labeling started seven months ago, when they “noticed that there was a pause on our page, one day we were doing good and then it just dropped. People were not receiving notifications, our posts were not showing up on their feed.”
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When originally reached for comment by Fox News why the videos from the duo were labeled as “unsafe to the community,” a Facebook spokesperson said that the company’s policy team had concerns about their online rhetoric and deemed them as unsafe.
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And how many Antifa groups has Facebook banned?
I’ve never watched them. I generally hate Youtube ranters (Mark Dice – don’t get me started). I might give them a whirl.
They are actually a very interesting duo. I have seen some of their stuff, and I was surprised – positively, I add – by their candor and fervor…
You should. They’re a blast.
Fuck Zuckerberg that jerk off. He must be soooo punchable behind the scenes.
It’s about making sure the left’s lies will not be challenged..
They learned their lessons when their attempt to steal the last election failed.
the company’s policy team had concerns about their online rhetoric
I wonder what got FB’s team all undie-bunched?
two of President Donald Trump’s most ardent supporters
Oh. Never mind.
Yeah, I was going to say the same thing. This question:
Is answered by this fact:
“Unsafe for the Preferred Narrative” is the real reason, not “Unsafe for the Community”.
Check out E.T. Williams. Youtube banned him basically for being a black guy who supports Trump and won’t toe the dem lion.
You stepping in for Ken S.?
Oh snap!
Maybe someone more knowledgeable on law than me can clear this up.
If I understand correctly, the social media giants get a pass on libel and defamation claims due to provisions in the Communications Decency Act (yeah, pretty Orwellian name) based on the notion that they’re content-neutral open forums. Now, if they have been taking a role to curate content on their sites (i.e. give left-leaning commentary an advantage or silence conservative content), doesn’t that move them from open forum status to content collaborator or editorial status? If so, that could mean an awfully big liability.
This isn’t my area of specialization, but I have been wondering exactly the same thing.
being deemed “unsafe to the community”
Gosh, that isn’t at all creepy and Orwellian!
This was a good move by Fox, but it’s not nearly enough. These assholes really need to have their asses dragged out into the limelight and given a dose of their own medicine. ‘Facebook bans two black women in blatantly racist move!’ should be the headline.
“In a statement to Fox News, a Facebook spokesperson said: “We are aware of this issue. We are reaching out to the creators of Diamond & Silk to try and resolve this matter.”
Listen up here, you two Aunt Jemimas, don’t be gettin all uppity! You can’t support Trump, we Democrats own you! As soon as you realize that and get back on that porch, we’ll let you play around on Facebook, I mean as long as you be good Democrats.
Libs are jerking off now…
Huh. Going after some sort of campaign finance violation? Cohen paying Daniels to keep quiet is some sort of campaign contribution that Cohen didn’t report, so they prosecute Cohen to squeeze info about DJT?
They think this will be like the whole Clinton moment after they spent decades telling us Clinton did nothing wrong sticking cigars in that chubby intern’s hoo-ha
Yes, if he hadn’t paid her off, we would all know who’s pussy Trump paid to grab prior to the election…
or something like that.
I think going after the lawyer is a sign of one of two things:
(1) Extreme desperation, or
(2) The case is just about in the bag.
I wonder how much of what they take will even be admissable, given the attorney-client privilege. Since they will undoubtedly hoover up lots of info on other clients, which will probably just about wreck the guy’s practice, I suppose this could be just pure malice – to hurt as many people in Trump’s camp however they can.
What I really want to see is the warrant application, and the name of the judge who signed off on it.
Final random thought: I wonder if this gives Trump cover for just firing Mueller for crossing one too many lines (because this is a very serious line to cross) on one too many fishing expeditions.
“I wonder how much of what they take will even be admissable, given the attorney-client privilege. Since they will undoubtedly hoover up lots of info on other clients, which will probably just about wreck the guy’s practice, I suppose this could be just pure malice – to hurt as many people in Trump’s camp however they can.”
I am certain it is malice…
Isn’t there a crime/fraud exception to the A/C privilege? If Cohen was personally involved in, say, avoiding campaign finance law by paying Daniels out of his own pocket, then I’m not sure any communications related thereto would remain privileged. Criminal law class was a loooonnngg time ago, so I may be off the reservation here.
I do agree taking out Trump’s personal attorney suggests the whole thing is likely winding up fairly soon.
The main exceptions are:
(1) The communication was made in the presence of third parties (IOW, it wasn’t ever really confidential and thus couldn’t be privileged).
(2) The communication was for the purpose of committing a crime. This is a very tricky one, because much A/C communication is about telling clients how to not commit a crime. Its pretty common for the client’s initial idea to actually be against some law or other, and the attorney advises the client on how to do it legally. If the client goes ahead and does it the wrong way, that should not defeat the privilege.
As an aside, attorneys can actually manufacture a defense out of thin air. Its called the advice of counsel defense. If your attorney tells how to do something, and you do it that way, and it turns out your attorney was wrong, you can still avoid prosecution/conviction as long as your attorney’s advice was reasonable.
(3) The client waives the privilege.
The problem Mueller has is that he would need to prove that the privilege does not apply to anything he seizes.
There’s also another privilege, called the work-product privilege. That one applies to anything prepared by a lawyer in anticipation of litigation. Since damn near everything Trump does is exposed to litigation, this one may actually be harder for Mueller to overcome.
I wonder if Trump has a civil rights claim against Mueller for this.
I am familiar with Work product privilege. That’s a really good point that essentially everything Trump does involves potential litigation, basically everything in Cohen’s office (as it pertains to DJT) is work product. Yeah, that should be the tougher hurdle for Mueller. Interesting.
I’m sure they can find judges to say it was totes OK. Because Trump.
After Trump pardoned that Thanksgiving turkey, it was overruled by the 9th Circuit.
I’m also going with the FBI sending a big bright message. “You may beat the rap, but you can’t beat the ride, fuckers. Work with people who make us look bad at your own risk.”
I suspect Mueller’s agenda is to outright block or delay anyone looking into the real fraud under Obama that he was part & parcel of, while sending the message to everyone never to fuck with the Deep State.
That is the best summary of what Mueller is doing that I have read, yet.
Especially when you consider that his initial appointment is fatally flawed.
Special prosecutors are supposed to be named to investigate a named crime. There is no actual crime named in his appointment, which is to investigate “links and/or coordination between the Russian government and individuals associated with [the Trump campaign]. First, mere links are not illegal, so that part of the appointment is hopelessly vague and overbroad. Coordination may involve illegal activities, by may not – its also very vague and thus overbroad. The giveaway here is that the appointment contains no actual crimes with citations to the statute defining those crimes.
It gets worse. Mueller’s appointment gives him carte blanche to investigate anything that comes up during his investigation of links and/or coordination. That’s flatly outside the scope of the regs under which he was appointed, which require that any expansion of the investigation beyond the named activities/crimes be reviewed and approved in advance.
The crime is beating an old woman.
To be fair she at the time was the godfather (godmother?) of the crime syndicate known as the democratic party.
The process is the punishment.
It does give Trump cover.
From The Hill:
“The New York Times reported that federal prosecutors in Manhattan obtained a search warrant after receiving a referral from special counsel Robert Mueller, but the raid does not appear to be directly connected to Mueller’s probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 election.”
That exceeds the already unconstitutional scope of the special counsel. Shut it down.
That said, I want the probe to continue. It’s an absolute clusterfuck, and the more the public gets to see, the better.
If you don’t think the FBI is incompetent and vindictive right now….. you will.
My favorite part of the whole thing is that it’s our friends at the Woodchipper Southern District Of New York DA office. So, there is absolutely no way that this could be carried out in a malicious and capricious manner to punish deplorables for daring to question the king’s men.
Oh snap, they’ve got him now!
Cohen’s attorney says that Cohen has been fully cooperative with the government throughout, including “sitting for depositions under oath”. I don’t recall reading previously that Cohen had been deposed/interrogated.
I’ve been deposed about a client matter. First, we waited three hours for the other attorneys to produce a written waiver of the privilege, because I sure wasn’t taking their word for it. They actually got a written waiver eventually, and the rest of the deposition was basically me saying “That was three years ago. I don’t remember [who else was in the room] [who might have said what], etc.”
I was definitely cooperating, but they didn’t get anything useful from it.
But you’ve never paid anyone off for a client, have you?
That part just still seems so weird to me.
Sure I have. Hell, I paid off someone to the tune of over $1mm dollars last month.
Those are called “settlements”, and the settlement agreement routinely involves a confidentiality (read: “gag”) clause.
Thanks for that by the way.
No problemo. These off-shore captive insurance companies are handy as hell, aren’t they?
BTW, my 10%, err, processing fee hasn’t shown yet.
Whoops!
*clicks*
We’re good.
Supposedly, it indicates that the things are heating up with the upcoming release of the first part of the IG report and the corresponding investigation by Huber, a prosecutor appointed by Sessions to deal with the criminal parts of the IG probe.
New foam armor for tanks
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2018/04/09/new-foam-armor-for-tanks-can-pulverize-enemies.html
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A revolutionary new material called Composite Metal Foam, or CMF, can pulverize enemy rounds and could even be used as an armor to protect tanks and other combat vehicles.
Believe it or not, this breakthrough foam may provide greater protection than traditional armor steel plates.
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Tanks are beasts. The M1 Abrams Main Battle Tank, for example, weighs in at more than 60 metric tons, so every pound matters.
Rolled homogeneous armor steel plate is frequently used for tanks and armored vehicles. The new foam has potential to provide enhanced protection — three times lighter than the current armor approach.
Here’s a practical example: A future vehicle could theoretically be kitted out with just 4 tons of CMF, rather than 12 tons of the traditional armor.
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I didn’t see anything about anti-tank guided missiles.
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In one test, one inch of this remarkable foam faced off against an M2 .30 caliber armor piercing bullet. The bullet travels with 2,780 foot-pounds of energy and when it makes contact with the foam, that armor piercing round is Hulk-smashed by the foam.
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Think she means .50 cal.
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Allison Barrie is a defense specialist with experience in more than 70 countries who consults at the highest levels of defense and national security, a lawyer with four postgraduate degrees, and author of the definitive guide, Future Weapons: Access Granted, on sale in 30 countries.
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[head desk]
Really, we can go to Fox News if we want. No need to link and paste the whole site here.
A new way of applying an old concept.
On the M2, she could be right, as the best armor penetration is done with a SLAP.
IIRC most of the hoorah about Chobham Armor was fanciful at best. A couple of tankers I knew thought it was about as useful as an ashtray on a Harley.
If it can stop the same stuff the current armor stops at a fraction of the weight, it will be a big advance. Even if it doesn’t stop anything the current armor can’t stop.
I wonder about civilian applications for this, as well. We civvies mostly need structural integrity, so it wouldn’t map over to a lot of our uses, but I wonder where it could be useful.
Aircraft and transatmospheric fighters would seem like good candidates based on it’s supposed qualities.
Using this it might actually be possible to build an aircraft immune to pretty much all current anti aircraft missiles, even if not a new generation A-10 equivalent could be made immune to manpads and most other ground based anti air threats.
When it comes to ATGMs, RPGs, etc. You want an active-protection system (APS). Naturally the Israelis came up with the first one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trophy_(countermeasure)
I think its $2.55 here.
I paid $2.47 today and grumbled in disgust.
$3.27, thanks Jerry!
Damn Yusef, that is a higher cost than in Hawaii. You pull it out of the ground there and have to ship it to middle of the Earth’s largest geographic feature here.
No surprise; about the same in Tucson.
I thought it was normally cheaper there?
It varies a lot by station and location. I don’t pay a lot of attention, but I seem to remember noticing that it had ooched up into the mid-$2 range lately.
It might be me specifically buying from Fry’s too, to cash in on the fuel discount.
Uh… to cash in on the watered down gas discount?
Is Kroger’s gas watered down? Will I have to make them throw gunpowder in the gas to prove its gas?
Stations like that aren’t affiliated with any specific brand, so they’ll order a tanker truck from whomever is cheapest this week. You could be getting decent fuel, but it’s unlikely.
It’s about the same here.
When I was in the LA area last week, I saw $3.50-$4.10
$3.95 here.
I paid $2.69 this morning, so we’re right on average down here.
$2.67 here. I would have expected NY to be a higher-taxed state for gas.
NY is #4 (as of Jan 1, 2017)
State Gasoline Tax Rates
So I discovered a new interview question that I never considered before for new employers: “Is the ratio of developers to managers on this project less than 1?”
Meet the Team
55 people in the team: 20 developers, 35 managers.
That’s right: more managers than actual developpers.
Sounds like a common problem… I used to tell them we had too many chiefs and not enough braves… Someone mentioned Indians, and the next thing I know they started throwing cheap bodies (consultants from India) at projects to shift that ration in their favor..
Just how many people do I need in this meeting that report back to the executive sponsors directly?
Where is your TPS report?
At my last job, one of the few valuable tasks I performed was to protect developers working for me from marauding hordes of managers. I would go to all the meetings that these other managers would schedule and tell the devs to skip it. The meetings were usually the other managers trying to justify their jobs. I would go and tell some fib about why the devs weren’t attending the meeting with me. Then if anything important happened, I’d send a quick note to the devs.
One of the strange things I discovered is that if I set up a meeting with my devs and the devs working on a parallel project in Germany, the meeting would be very constructive with all the devs geeking out and comparing important ideas about the general architecture of future road map ideas. But add one manager to that meeting and the German devs would clam up and wait for the manager to give out the marching orders.
So I would set up a dev only meeting and then counterprogram a manager’s only meeting at the same time.
C’mon Bobs, Don’t fire Jimbo! He’s a people person!
Also, the Army has been consolidating the IT structure, so now we have get data support from the next higher, where it seems there are 30 managers to 1 developer (who, 9 times out of 10, is a contractor).
Recently took me a year to get a change approved for something that only took a week to change.
Your tax dollars, ladies and gentlemen.
Wow. There’s literally no way any work gets done with that kind of lopsided staffing. Whoever is the top manager deserves a firing for that stupidity.
In my experience, management has never seen a work problem – especially if it meant they had to do more work themselves – they didn’t feel could be solved by another layer of managers below them.
This was my favorite part:
I shudder to think about the poor QA bastard who kicked off that load process Monday morning and had to pretend to work (in 2007 before smartphones were great) for a whole week.
From the UK knife thread in the last (dead) thread- I still wonder if the criminal in criminal murder/violence was deleted, that the rates would be even higher for London.
In full disclosure, I walked through central London from the Tower Bridge to Chelsea Barracks carrying an unlicensed assisted opening folder (“assault knife”) on a summer day not that long ago. I also entered the country without a passport.
The one bright spot with the gun grabbing kids is that it has taken the shine off the other SJW groups. For example, does anyone really care all that much about the Minnesoda Youth Climate Intervenors?
Protesting pipelines are so 2017. Get with the program and find some dead school kids to stand on. Although, their cause does sound pretty tempting.
” endorsement of fossil fuels is unsustainable and unjust.”
They’re supporting fission nuclear now?
we young people know
Practically nothing, actually.
Adele Welch is a student at Macalester College in St. Paul.
*shocked face*
Commie College. Whoduh thunkit?
Indistinguishable from the rantings of a mental patient.
DENIER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What? The new Vikings stadium didn’t automatically deliver on all of its promises to create a huge zone of new economic activity? That all the govt money poured into the area didn’t create a new vibrant neighborhood?
Say it ain’t so Joe!
I think this is one of those stories that is preparing the populace for some large city bailout of the developers.
But the electronic pull-tabs definitely paid for the stadium, right?
I actually saw my first e-pulltab machine yesterday.
No one even went near it, but I’m sure it is swamped on Friday nights.
But the area still requires some heavy lifting — not involving cranes or concrete — to become the vibrant, cohesive place people like Ryan envisioned.
Like, I don’t know, something that doesn’t just happen 10 times in 18-20 weeks from late summer to mid-winter?
It’s the broken birds fallacy.
That awesome Raitt song reminds me of Lucinda Williams and her version of Mississippi John Hurt’s ‘Angels laid him away’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC7Um0o6nF0
Bow to the power of T&A.
http://archive.is/DV9DD
Excellent areolae on 3. 18 asks “are you thirsty?” 45 destroys all competition.
19, 34
Hello 33
#16
Does Bill Murray own a major share of Dow-Corning?
I’m suddenly in the mood for a Bud Light. Also, #45.
43.
OT, but I don’t care. Just had my first A1C test since I found out I had “the diabeetis.” In three months I went from a 12.4% to a… 6.1%!
I owe it all to moderate exercise, a boring diet and a switch to Miller Lite. I am pumped!
I’d let them saw a foot off before I switched to Miller Lite. One of the very few beers I don’t like. I’d be OK drinking other light beers, but not Miller Lite.
Michelob Ultra for you!
I bought one case of that once. Once. One case.
At the end of that experiment I was still fat and old and my wife still wouldn’t let me date all the young models who were desperate for me.
Mich Ultra Amber is actually fairly good for the below 100 calorie set of beers.
Some of us have the good sense not to drink beer at all. :-p
You can drink Miller Lite, Ted. It’s not beer.
I don’t like carbonated beverages.
Miller Lite is what I drink.
A1C test
You don’t test for rank until Staff Sergeant. E-3 is a given. Your recruiter set you up for failure.
What’s sad is, unless Swiss is familiar with Air Force enlisted ranks, even he won’t narrow gaze me.
I was too busy looking at the improper use of ‘You’re’.
You are recruiter? Admitting to being a criminal?
What?
You bastard!
“That isn’t the word you thought you saw.”
Show bobs and vagene
I saw it, and the closest I came to joining the AF was using Air Force gloves whenever I could get away with it.
They’re ‘air force mittens’.
And for those not following, we’re talking about pockets.
Oh, I know ’em…I just didn’t want to even acknowledge that remark….
Damn, son, that’s great news! Congrats and keep it going!
Woman who accused Missouri governor of blackmailing her with nude photographs now claims the incident may have been a dream she had.
Hashtag believe all women.
And the prosecutor may herself end up on the horns for her conduct during the investigation.
Oh, that would be delicious.
Without seeing the pictures first, how am I to decide?
So, based on OMWC’s introduction of Henry Morgan to Glibs, I snooped around and found this interview on Letterman in ’82.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jMnhYZ4iOU
End this fucking “investigation” (aka: fishing expedition, aka: witch hunt, aka: coup attempt).
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/09/us/politics/fbi-raids-office-of-trumps-longtime-lawyer-michael-cohen.html
Again with the conspiracy theories, Q?
Just using hyperbole. I don’t see the point of this anymore; what are they trying to accomplish? They keep saying “collusion, collusion, collusion!” what does that even mean? Maybe it’s just way it’s being reported, but I don’t see the aim of this exercise other than
-wasting money
-do the anticipated Dem House’s investigation for them for impeachment
-keep trying to dig up dirt on Trump to torpedo his reelection bid
If there was meddling from the Russians of a scale large enough to actually affect the election, they would have found it by now. It seems now that this is a purely partisan exercise designed to delegitimize Trump.
No that I have any special love for Trump, but this whole song and dance is setting a very bad precedent.
Especially so since tit for tat is a thing with these Fucking monkeys – next time a much loathed D is in The White House, Team Red will be tempted to engage in the same very expensive and stupid kabuki theatre.
HEAR HEAR!
More tit, less tat!
Stick to what you know, Q!
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/16/4d/0e/164d0e15d7286e6dc81a6fbacab6f210.jpg
“Team Red will be tempted to engage in the same very expensive and stupid kabuki theatre.”
No they won’t. Because principles. Because they still think that if they just strike the right friendships with their friendly friends across the aisle, then the friendly friends will listen to them and actually compromise with them.
Shit, Rubio said the other week he would not be actively campaigning for Rick Scott against Bill Nelson, because Rubio and Nelson have a great working relationship.
There’s a reason Kerensky lost to Lenin: because he refused to fight. Shit, even after the Bolshevik coup he refused to back the Whites, because “muh principles”. He went into exile instead.
No shit. Local legislator that tried to take the high road and the ole we’re opponents during the day, but friends in spite of it, was nailed by his Democrat supposed friends when the opportunity presented itself. Stupid idiot.
The purpose of the Mueller investigation is to provide a cover up of rigging the Presidential election by the FBI/DOJ/Obama Administration.
We have a winner.
Secondarily, its to delegitimize the President of the United States and to provide lots of fodder for the Dems to bloviate about in impeachment hearings after the idiot Repubs hand them the House in November.
I still don’t think they are going to lose the House.
Meanwhile back at the farm.
FBI Notifies Judicial Watch It Needs At Least THREE YEARS To Turn Over Strzok-Page Communications
Trump needs to go on the world’s biggest firing spree. All of these fuckers need to be unemployed.
But I suspect they’ll go through the contents of Cohen’s office by Monday. Somehow.
Dammit. Missed it up above.
Or, see comment 10 above.
My kid has state-mandated testing tomorrow. Hate that so much.
State-mandated testing is bad enough, but she’s in 3rd grade. Way too young for that shit.
FWIW, Mrs Gordilocks is a public school elementary teacher, she teaches grade 3, and shares your opinion, that children this young shouldn’t be expected to meet arbitrary targets set by far away faceless bureaucrats. To her credit, her reasoning doesn’t come down from her union on high.
The proper term is “third grade”.
That’s horseshit.
We had our first standardized test in 8th grade and even at that it was useless.
… Huh. We had standardized testing in kindergarten…
I actually enjoyed taking those tests as a wee lad. I remember taking them in 3rd grade and having fun. Back then, it was like someone gave me a puzzle book and said I could work on it for 3 hours.
HM taking a 3rd grade standardized test.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZWE-oOTOlc
You probably cost your school a lot of federal funding by raising the average score.
But the diversity he brought should have balanced that, no?
It doesn’t work like that.
Dammit, will you ever win? 🙁
Seriously, reading about school system in the West makes me reconsider whether I actually grew up in a socialist country, despite all the red stars and pictures of Lenin/Marx/Engels…
“”3rd grade. Way too young””
agreed.
I think child-development specialists would also agree that its pointless trying to establish ‘standards’ of measure at a phase when kids are wildly inconsistent in their own development.
But without early childhood educational standards, how will we justify universal Pre-K? The Pre-K boost disappears by 3rd grade, after all, so if you wait until later to test your kids it will be a pointless waste of government money (hey, wait a minute…).
Also what would we do to ensure the teachers have a replacement Teacher Free Reading Day if we did away with them?
My second grader has them next week.
Took something called the California Achievement Test when I was about that age. 4th grade maybe? I did very well.
Yes, the CAT!
Is that a standard test on the eastern seaboard as well? I took it in Denver metro, Boulder to be precise.
It was when I was a kid. Now it’s the NAEP, I believe.
4th grade we took the Iowa basics.
This individual has total credibility. Just completely trustworthy.
https://pagesix.com/2018/04/09/stormy-daniels-poses-nude-for-penthouse/
She’s just doing her job, Q. Why would I want to hold her against me?
/Yeah, I said it.
So…
…a bunch of ‘sort of liberalish’ people i follow on twitter seem overjoyed about “FBI raiding Trump-lawyer’s office”
Even if payoffs to Stormy Daniels may have, by some bizarre quirk of law, been criminal…. i find the idea of the feds raiding lawyers-offices somewhat off-putting. That’s not normally what you do when pursuing otherwise inconsequential illegalities.
Its also, it seems to me, a wild and reckless exercise of prosecutorial over-reach. Wasn’t the subject of investigation something to do with ‘election meddling’ by a foreign power? The idea that special prosecutors just have free rein to find any/everything potentially damaging to someone is not something people should be enthused/excited by, even if the person being Special-Prosecuted is someone you dislike.
I feel like we had this debate in the 1990s.
Pretty much what I meant to say above, but more eloquently put.
Is this the way it’ll be from now on? Any legitimately elected President will have a special prosecutor running around digging into anything and everything with no limitations on scope?
Could you see modern Republicans pulling this shit with a Democrat president? Even if they had the balls for it, which they haven’t, they wouldn’t have a breathless, willfully gullible media running interference for them.
This is a Deep State operation. The Dems are the party of the Deep State. No way in hell does the Deep State go after any Dem President.
If by some fluke Bernie got elected, they might.
The Republicans aren’t competent enough either. Exhibit One is Jeff Sessions.
as someone i dislike once pointed out: the group MoveOn.org was originally formed during the Lewinsky scandal, and its name was intended to suggest, “this is stupid, stop these silly investigations”
Why do you dislike me? 🙁
it was soave who noted it
As I note above, special prosecutors are supposed to have a very narrow initial task, and any expansion of their investigation beyond that task is supposed to be specifically approved by the AG. Mueller’s appointment is invalid for, among other reasons, the blank check it gives him to investigate anything that comes up during his investigation.
In a just and decent world, the DOJ Inspector General and his prosecutor sidekick would come over the hill soon, much like Gandalf and the Riders of Rohan in The Two Towers, to drive the Deep State Orcs before them in disarray and defeat.
This. In an honest DOJ, Sessions and his deputies would be supervising the investigation and keeping their scope under control. If the independent prosecutor couldn’t stay on task, they eould fire him for cause.
Instead Meuller is allowed to do whatever the fuck he wants in an unrestricted fishing expedition / counter revolution.
Long lost relative of SEA SMITH?
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A newly discovered Triassic ichthyosaur species was one of the largest animals in history, according to paleontologists at the University of Manchester in England.
…
Researchers estimated the ancient ichthyosaur to have stretched at least 85 feet in length, making it nearly the size of the blue whale, the largest animal in history.
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Pfft, barely larger than a blue whale. Not that impressive.
Actually, that’s really cool.
re: Dark Matter
There is some evidence that dark matter might interact with matter or light in ways other than gravity. This has to do with the detection of the first stars in the universe (which are rally hard to detect because they’ve been burned out for quite a few eons)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R9F2_D76TE
Maybe dark matter is just the remnants of all our thoughts and prayers after a school shooting?
chortle
Katherine Mangu-Ward: I’m the left’s ideal of a House Conservative they’re willing to tolerate, but I’m not a conservative.
Of course, John is ‘sperging out in the comments.
The Left loves the idea of the squishy moderate Republican. Look at the character on The West Wing. Look at how every single Republican President, after they leave office, is held up as this object of Strange New Respect in contrast to the New Wicked RightWing Extremist.
It’s going to happen to Trump 20 years from now, it will be absolutely hilarious. “Remember Donald Trump? He was roguish and blustering, but he was a moderate politically. This new Republican candidate is far too extreme for me, a Moderate Independent who is both independent and moderate.”
Huge part of the prog gameplan is to pretend their radical doctrines of social engineering are just “common sense pragmatic solutions”. They’ve been doing it for a century, and it’s very effective at getting them their goals.
It will take less than 20 years. I can see in 2022/2026 already.
It will not happen in 2022 . Either he will still be President and thus Literally Hitler, or he will be the reason President Democrat’s economy is in the toilet.
Hell, there were murmurs in 2016 about how classy and polite Bush was, from people who called him a bloodthirsty murderer not even a decade ago.
No, the Strange New Respect for Donny Two Scoops will come after he is dead, because if they try it while hes still alive, he will troll the shit out of them on Twitter.
Huge part of the prog gameplan is to pretend their radical doctrines of social engineering are just “common sense pragmatic solutions”. They’ve been doing it for a century, and it’s very effective at getting them their goals.
Exactly. That’s why the Brady Campaign, which advocates a total ban on handguns for civilians, claims to be the “voice of moderation” in the gun debate.
“”‘The Atlantic publishes lots of interesting heterodox voices, of course. “”
Her examples there are conor friedersdof – a Soave-esque prog* who occasionally says nice things about libertarians, and David Frum, a prog who calls himself conservative when he’s paid enough.
*maybe i’m being too harsh on friedersdorf. i used to like him quite a bit – and indeed, i’d hoped he would write @ reason sometimes. (and get rid of Soave/ENB)
but he has shat out some particularly stupid chinstrokers over the last 2 years because it was easy to be the ‘heterodox voice’ when obama was president, but doing so while Trump is president is simply too dangerous when the media sees any deviation from the collective #Resistance-outrage as heresy
Friedersdorf often writes about 3/4 of a good column, and then the final quarter is a bunch of backpedaling to avoid following his argument to the logical end that would make his employers and colleagues angry with him.
yeah, that’s a good characterization.
tho i’d probably describe it more like 50/50; like he first writes the good column, then edits it and fills every paragraph with caveats and equivocations to ensure that he never goes so far as to offend the prog-mind.
you can almost see the original beneath all the bullshit. its why he reminds me of robby, only Robby writes it that way in his first draft.
Thanks for posting that. KMW wrote a really good article.
John was not the only one ‘sperging out in the comments.
Holy shit. Hihn is a fucking disease, worse than Mary.
And a lot of old trolls are back in full swing.
430 comments?!?
AoS linked the article, too.
Hank Phillips|4.9.18 @ 8:26PM|#
Maybe after this scolding from KMW they’ll hire David Duke or Robert Dear to replace whatzisface…
You know what? I’m surprised they don’t do this anyway. Hire a real lightning pole to play up the all conservatives are intolerant bigots angle.
Most coherent thing Hank Philips has said, though I think you just used a snippet of his actual post. Usually he talks about abortion, prohibition and Herbert Hoover.
“”Hihn is a fucking disease, worse than Mary.””
I think Hihn *is* mary, fwiw.
his level of crazy, and frequency of posting, is distinctly different now.
Think the Humboldt Broncos crash couldn’t get any worse? Think again.
Two hockey players in Humboldt Broncos bus crash misidentified; one survived, one died
Autostart video, but some absurd pics of the crash. Sickening.
538’s latest “statistical’ tea leaf reading. Be Afraid Russia is coming for the midterms. https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-russia-could-steal-the-midterms/
Prepping excuses for the Dems to *not* take the House, that’s all.
Rothbard on Iran 1979
http://reason.com/archives/1979/06/01/the-death-of-a-state/amp
Rothbard on Iran 1983
https://mises.org/library/new-menace-gandhism
Libertarian rejoicing has nothing at all to do with whatever State replaces the shah. It celebrates the fact that a powerful, dictatorial, seemingly impregnable State can be and has been overthrown by the force of an idea.
Wow. The academic mind at work, I guess. Who cares whether what comes next is likely to be worse than what was just overthrown. The main thing is that an IDEA (no matter how bloodstained and barbaric) triumphed!
No, Murray, it kinda matters which idea triumphed. You could have written exactly the same thing after the Bolshevik Revolution.
Rothbard’s Law:
Rothbard was great on everything but politics. Guess what he concentrated on? 😉
I will hold firm to the belief that our Q Continuum is the exception to said rule!
http://www.foxhq.com/stacey-poole-sweater-and-jeans/1.jpg
Did you see his Death of a State article on South Vietnam and Cambodia in 1975 that I posted a few days ago? Pan summed it up best.
I’ve said it before but Rothbard envisioned himself of some sort of libertarian Lenin hence his fondness for Revolution. Also he was opposed to US Cold War policies of propping up authoritarian regimes in the name of “stability” hence he had a vested interested in defending Revolution.
Rothbard also hated the neocons and was determined to prove them wrong on literally everything. You can see Rockwell, Raimondo and Richman having the same ideas.
Back in 1960s he was talking about how Lenin and Mao had some libertarianish sentiments. He and Liggio seemed to think that the Commies had some beneficial ideas.
Stop, stop, he’s already dead.
I bet he’d have danced a jig at the Fourth Parition of Poland, too. It doesn’t matter which regimes tore it apart, important part is that the area that had three states now has two…
The regime before was horrid as well.
There’s a popular myth that it was progressive, etc. it wasn’t, although it started off bribing citizens and quickly took an authoritarian turn. It was maybe even more disastrous than the present day one. They seized the oil from the British and then proceeded to ruin the entire industry for decades.
Are you talking about Mossadegh? He was the guy who the US and Brits helped overthrow.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_parliamentary_dissolution_referendum,_1953
I see no reason to question these results. /sarcasm
Judging by the ayatollah’s selection of Mehdi Bazargan to be prime minister, the new republic will probably be considerably less oppressive than that of the shah (Bazargan was the head of the Iranian Society for the Defense of Liberty and Human Rights
Snippets from wiki:
The virtue is in the name, so it must be in the organization itself.
Well he did think Bazargan the man was a sign of a more liberal regime as well. Indeed his later opposition to Khomeini shows Rothbard wasn’t wrong to think Barzargan was a more liberal figure. His mistake was that he did not realize that Bazargan was a just a figurehead while Khomeini consolidated power and created his theocracy.
There’s a strain of libertarian that’s basically just anti-American. To them, anything bad for America is libertarian.
http://www.lpnevada.org/the_libertarian_revolution_in_mexico
Huh why do all the libertarian revolutions get hijacked by statist fucks? *Insert ancap snark*
Because power… um… I forget what power does. *lights joint*
Once Madero was killed the revolution morphed from an Americanized version of Enlightenment to the French perversion of Enlightenment. Those perverted French
I do find Paine’s defense of the revolution amusing in light of the fact that he was almost executed by the revolutionaries and was associated with the Girondins who started the war.
In a sane world, comments this inane (and hyper-obviously hypocritical) would be mocked so viciously that it would destroy someone’s career
But because we live in an insane age, it barely merits a yawn
Is she talking about privatized prisons? The government prisons we have right now are run for profit – for the profit of the AFSCME and SEIU, which “represent” (e.g. take money from) all of the employees on the payroll.
Lefties don’t really have a problem with for-profit prisons; they just object to the profit going to entrepreneurs rather than government officials and pubsec unions.
Wow! Pretty brave going after the California prison guards’ union like that.
Ha! Not likely, the prisons guard union is untouchable in California.
At least she said black, brown, and poor people and not black, brown, and poor bodies.
People? What a shitlord. #OtherkinLivesMatter
So does Us magazine.
It’s about Time someone noticed.
It’s coming in Vogue
There is no Reasoning with you!
Gee, Q should get in on this.
socialized with all of my neighbors
You know who else socialized all of their neighbors?
Me?
That’s different. You’re in Minnesota
It’s really not as nice as rumored. I’m always armed.
I’d be too. It’s Minnesota- a hockey fight could break out any second
Damn straight!
How’s things?
I’m enjoying some April snow.
And you?
Same. Where the hell is spring?
I’ve been trying to keep up on Reasonoids. Y’all are prolific!
Hey man, good to see you! Stick around, I like your comments.
…well, I mean they are OK…for a papist.
If you enjoy my comments then surely there must be something wrong with you (besides the whole Lutheran thing).
Hope all is well with you
All is well. Just add me to the list of people waiting for spring.
Fred Rodgers?
Debbie in Dallas?
Debbie sure was popular in Dallas
Sweeny Todd?
I for one find nothing suspicious about the fact that Assad is alleged to have used chemical weapons immediately after President Obama said use of such weapons would “cross a red line” necessitating American intervention. I further do not find it at all suspicious that another chemical weapons attack is alleged to have been conducted by Assad a mere week after President Trump said he wanted to withdraw American troops from Syria. No sir. Completely coincidental.
Assad may be a shit bag tyrant, but he apparently seems to schedule his chemical weapon attacks at the least opportune moment for no apparent strategic benefit.
We need to get out either way. Last thing we need is yet *another* endless war in Central Asia.
Yeah. At some point even the Weekly Standard has got to say “OK, this is getting a little ridiculous”
Not unless Bill Kristol died. Their mantra is all war all the time.
Exactly.
We can’t fix that shithole region of the world. The cultures over there have no concept of religious tolerance, non-aggression, or human rights. The majority of people over there support execution of homosexuals, violent persecution of non-Muslims (and different kinds of Muslims), and the rape of their daughters and sisters as punishment for “immodesty”. It’s neither the ability nor the duty of other countries to come in and fix things. The people of this region have to do that, and they can do it anytime, but most of them don’t want to.
The only thing to do is stop putting our fucking fingerprints on that disaster.
I’m telling ya!
Tin-foil is over-rated.
Properly grounded copper netting is where it’s at.
Faraday suit.
You’re not the only one questioning this.
Indeed it is suspicious. That being said dismissing it because it could lead to war is not a good idea either.
And yes another Middle East war would be disastrous.
Well at least this time around the Israelis are happy to do their own dirty work.
The idea that Assad did it is transparent nonsense. Look at who stands to benefit and you have your likely culprit. Then again, maybe this wily fellow who was on the cusp of ultimate victory just ordered his army to do the one thing that stands a chance of denying him that victory. Not likely though.
Piglet hears the clock ticking on that 15 minutes…
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2018/04/09/good-news-david-hogg-to-postpone-college-to-devote-time-to-midterm-elections/?utm_campaign=twitchywidget
Wow, didn’t see that one coming.
Saw this article today – NRO is really publishing some interesting viewpoints these days. Yes, it’s a bit pro-cop, but the perspective is also worth considering – circumstantial or otherwise.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/04/criminal-justice-officials-should-stand-up-to-mental-health-officials/
………….
You’re right. He has a point.
Has there been a Popehat chat here? Anyone have news?
Explain?
He had a primer on the Cohen raid so his site is crushed under the traffic.
He’s saying this is a yuge deal.
Thanks Trump!
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/apr/9/william-mckinley-statue-removal-arcata-california-/
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A California town’s effort to remove a statue of former President William McKinley shows that the leftist bent for erasing politically incorrect figures from the public square no longer is reserved for slave owners, Confederate generals and segregationists.
On the heels of the Confederate monument purge across the South, the town council of Arcata, California, voted to take down a statue of the 25th president, despite McKinley’s sterling record on civil rights.
Among other things, McKinley fought to abolish slavery in the Civil War, resisted demands to fire Catholic state workers as governor of Ohio and appointed a record number of blacks to federal positions as president.
But activists cite McKinley’s mistreatment of American Indians and policy of territorial expansion as grounds for the statue’s removal. McKinley signed the Curtis Act of 1898, an amendment to the Dawes Act, which broke up tribal governments in Indian territory and paved the way for Oklahoma to become a state in 1907.
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[head desk]
Where’s Boehm?
And this would include pretty much every Union General and most abolitionists. Even John Brown!
Who are they replacing him with? Che has to be in the running.
Tribal governments should be broken up on 14A grounds. Let them become private associations if they wish. Oh right, leftists fucked up freedom of association so oh well.
I finally got around to reading that delusional, hot mess Medium article prognisticating a bloodless Civil War 2.0 scenario precipitating in a California progressive landslide nationally. I guess massive unsustainable State level budget deficits and unfunded and impossible to attain public sector liability to pair with the already Federal debt-is-parity-with-US GDP is the way of the future.
The article is creepy and faith based in the same way that fascism’s Hegelian historical dialectic is. I for one am ready for Pax California to wash over us all and dial that debt up.to $40tt. Fuckit, why not $100tt?
North Carolina, Texas, and Florida are the future. California has the same model as Illinois and New Jersey, except their GDP and geography is massive. It will take longer for the same consequences to arrive.
I fear that NC, TX, and FL are merely slower moving versions of the same. At best marking time. I don’t see any place becoming more free. Progs and prog thinking infect everywhere.
That’s possible. But at that juncture maybe the former prog states reform their way after the decline
I’m an optimist in my own life, but in general terms I think progressivism is on the march and will continue to do so, despite the wrong candidate winning the last election. I would love nothing more than to see it utterly and completely defeated as an ideology, but I don’t imagine we will see that soon.
Anybody wanna argue immigration or abortion? Maybe both?
Suthen already did the former one post back today, and no one ended up catbutted.
Dare I ask if the latter is connected to your new avatar? I can’t enlarge it enough to figure out the detail.
Yea, I just read it. I neither god nor beast, but I think I could live without a pack.
I’m watching a documentary on the waco siege. It’s on the Smithsonian channel. I’ll let yall know of it pisses me off. I just started it.
It was pro govenment propaganda
The judge who signed off on that warrant for Cohen’s office seems to either a) be extremely confident that probably cause was established because he knew the warrant was going to be looked at reeeeal closely or b) didn’t really give a shit if the probable cause standard was met despite knowing it would be looked at reeeeal closely. Hyper politicization makes it impossible for a simpleton like me to even have a guess on what’s the truth. In cases like that, I tend to fall into the category that government is corrupt at its core and filter my opinion accordingly. But WTF do I know?
Honesty, I hope that the warrant is semi valid and they use it to get Trump. Not because of any particular animus I have again him, but because I hope it sets precedent.
The U.S. does a horrible job of imprisoning it’s political leaders. I’d like to see us correct that.
IF they actually applied the law equally. That’s a pretty big if considering how Hillary got away with all the illegal shit she did. My gut tells me that a house cleaning would only be against the team with the wrong tie color.
Yup, if they had a special prosecutor for every President, it would be one thing, but if they try to remove Trump for some bullshit campaign finance rules it is not going to be good.
You should probably assume
a) everyone involved knows its their ass if they fuck this up. the likelihood that they have a strong case against cohen is strong. lawyers don’t go after lawyers unless they have them dead to rights.
b) the end goal is not cohen, but flipping him and getting Trump on *something*. Regardless of how unrelated to the original mandate of the special prosecutor it is.
given b) will they bend the rules as far as ‘standards of evidence’? i doubt it. i think they’ll cheat on process (as suggested w the ‘beyond the role of special prosecutor’ point), but not substance.
I would be surprised if it were just this ‘stormy daniels’ bullshit. if it involved misuse of campaign funds, that could be the thing.
“”the likelihood is high that they have a strong case against cohen””
i think i suffer from mild echolalia. i sometimes repeat words when writing.
I do the same, but for humor, like my terrible thirst for liquids, or preparing the preparations.
There’s a lot of pressure coming from all sides on this case and the entire Mueller investigation itself. Sometimes, usually?, that type of pressure results in what you described in a). It’s not out of the realm of possibility that the intense pressure warped the objectivity of the judge in this case. We like to think that being a professional would inoculate judges, but there is also precedent, the FISA court for example, for standards to slip.
I agree with b) in that cheating on process seems the more likely route. If I were betting, I’d take your interpretation. That being said, I’m not assuming anything yet. We’ll see what they really have eventually.
In nature pressure creates diamonds, in politics pressure creates highly compacted shit; bad for the colon and the populace.
Since Stormy Daniels is involved I think one of the angles they are going for is the payment to her is an in-kink campaign contribution and because of the size it is probably illegal.
2 additional thoughts.
1) The collusion part of Mueller’s investigation is over and he found nothing.
2) The campaign finance part has started and I’m betting Mueller will find something because it would be hard not too. Of course if you have unlimited resources to investigate any major campaign you will find something they can charge.
Man, I love me some movies, and as a guilty pleasure as a single man, I kinda like watching a few rom-coms a year. Just saw They Came Together. I’ve never done a fan cut of a film no one has seen before, but with just a few edits this movie could be the perfect deconstruction of rom-coms.
Just make an endless loop of her getting hit in the face with the football. They are lampooning rom-coms? I don’t know because that looks just as annoying as the real ones.
The actually movie dialogue (except the parts I’d cut) is very keenly written and contrived. It was brilliant to watch (except those parts I’d cut).
The aunt flo joke is one I would cut.
Sonavabitch!
So, now I know you’re one of those low brow comedy folk. Tsk tsk.
So, basically, you’ve been scrolling over 90% of my posts the past year.
Then here you go, another scene I’d cut, that I guess you’ll enjoy.
That’s basically the old joke about the guy with a ten dollar bill in his pocket.
So you think that is old and played out, but an aunt flo joke isn’t?
I like my humor with a twist.
Wait…Rafi AND Stabler?!? I am so fucking there.
I saw it was on cable over the weekend, so it should be easy to find.
yeah, I DVR’d it off Starz.
I have a morning movie, now!
OK. I larfed at the aunt Flo line.
Re the Cosby protester: Nicecrack but nevercstick it in crazy.
Are you talking about the shot of her as a kid?
Super News. Boston Marathon To Allow Men To Compete Against Women
I didn’t know that they didn’t already do that; now I have a reason to look down on those sexist easterners that they are just now doing this. Outrage over past wrongs FTW!
I got a bunch of stale tea to throw in the harbor, but I throw like a girl.
Like, an actual XX chromosome girl. To be sure.
So; I just came up with a gimmick for an interview show where my face is pixelated and my voice is disguised, but the guests is not. Comedy gold for the first ep, not sure after that.
That is funny, but a one shot thing, I think. Though you could end with a 30 sec preview of the next episode in which your face is visible but your right hand is mysteriously pixelated the whole time.
Why not go for the “interviewer in the dark” concept? Like crime victims giving an interview from the dark, with their voice deepened.
Of course, you could nod at what the guest says, but not really be seen…chuck that one, I guess.
An Interview in the Dark…
I like the title. For what exactly, I don’t know.
Same here. It could be an album name, a book title–lots of things, really. Or, a bunch of nuthin’.
My one, semi-good idea for the year.
You could do the TV show like one of those trendy restaurants where they pay extra to eat in complete darkness, spilling half their meal in the process.
So you film the interview in night vision. And maybe offer them a meal during the interview so you can have them feeling their veil Parmesan while talking about important matters of state or their latest acting role.
^What cyto said.
BTW, cyto–It’s good to see you here. Not that you’re a recent addition around here, but I don’t see you much since I’m on so late. Glad you made the transition here.
How about a preview of an upcoming episode where the entire screen is pixelated EXCEPT the guest’s face.